December 1st, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
December begins with the return of YouTube’s New Year Countdown, a special destination page presented by HTC, spotlighting 31 of the year’s most memorable videos.Special effects maestro freddiew kicks off the Countdown with a bang, courtesy of his eye-…
December 1st, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
YouTube is now available to Google Apps users with their Apps accounts – one of dozens of new services that are now available to Google Apps users as part of a recent Google Apps launch. Google Apps is Google’s suite of communication and collaboratio…
November 28th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
This week in Howcast’s ‘Modern 101 for emerging digital filmmakers’ we’re pleased to welcome guest lecturer, Professor Compressor. Professor Compressor is one of the most revered thinkers in web video and is renowned for his ability to compress…
November 24th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
In May 2010, Wong Fu Productions (Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, Philip Wang) and Ryan Higa started talking about doing a special project: a high-quality, long-form film that would be released just on YouTube for fans. Well, the moment is here: the film is now o…
November 23rd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
Chef John Mitzewich is the voice behind YouTube’s most subscribed cooking channel, Food Wishes. Chef John today posted his 500th video to YouTube, and he recently took time out to answer a few questions about how he makes his videos and the trends h…
November 22nd, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
With Thanksgiving around the corner, another holiday season moves into full swing. Every year at this time, we see searches for cooking videos and turkey recipes surge on the site, and it’s one reason we’ve aggregated many great culinary videos on …
November 19th, 2010 | by Chris Dale | published in Youtube
Today marks exactly one year since we launched automatic captions. We started with just a few partner channels in November 2009, and soon after turned on auto-captions for everyone. As we explained back then, we like to launch early and iterate, and th…
November 19th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.After a little break last week, we’re back today to share a post I
November 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
I’m a movie buff, and love getting excited for upcoming releases by checking out trailers on YouTube. It’s easy and convenient to watch the trailers online, but I’ve often wished I could get closer to the theater experience in my browser. So I d…
November 14th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Next New Networks has developed, produced or promoted some of the most popular web series on YouTube, including “The Key of Awesome,” “Obama Girl” and “Auto-Tune the News.” They recently launched a new series, “Comedy Thunder,” to help …
November 10th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
We know that sometimes people come to YouTube looking for a specific video, but at other times, they have only a rough idea of the kind of videos they want. We’ve been there too, and have been thinking for a while about this challenge of searching w…
November 10th, 2010 | by Chris Dale | published in Youtube
Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you’ve increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,1…
November 10th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Bon Jovi lived on a prayer: that you would determine the set list for their concert tonight. And you heeded that call: 1,494 of you submitted 1,733 questions and cast nearly 25,000 votes to determine what those songs would be. So tune in to www.youtube…
November 9th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Howcast is changing it up this week, and Heather Menicucci’s weekly series on filmmaking in the digital age will resume next Friday.Help Howcast find our first video blogger! We’re looking for someone to produce, edit and host our new video blog tak…
November 9th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Youtube
If you’re like me, you love watching YouTube on your smartphone. My phone is always with me, which means my favorite YouTube videos are never more than a few taps away. Sometimes though, mid-watch, I wish I could get a big-screen experience of that v…